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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
McAIIlster's Cross Roads.
To the Chronicle.


To the Chronicle.
| will state to your many readers that
everything is quiet around McAllister's
Cross Roads. Farmers are all very busy
breaking tobacco land and preparing to
plant corn.
Mr.. Jesse Daniel OF Cave Mills was
on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. ]. G..
Batson, and he reports that corn was
being planted very extensively on Yel-
low Creek in March. Col. Gracey has
been out in this section prospecting
about options on these lands and finds
ore very plentiful and guess Messrs.
Gracey and Cobb, will hurry the rail-
road through, for we are needing it
badly, and We think it Will be paying
road, we long to hear its sound over
these immense hills Of ore.
Miss Florence Binkley one Of Char
lotte's fairest specimens has just return
ed home from this neighborhood, where
she has spent two weeks very pleasant
". We are always glad to see her.
Miss Maggie Powell, daughter of j..
B. Powell, has been seriously i'll for four
weeks, but under close attention by DR..
j. G. Brake, she is improving very fast,
and the community as well as her par
ents are glad to hear that she is much
better.
Mr.. Richard Mills was awakened a few
mornings ago by his dog barking, and
on looking out at the window, he saw a
great big negro man picking potatoes
out OF Il box, and he leaped out OF the
window without coat, pants or shoes,
and such a race they did have for two
hundred yards but the negro carried
the potatoes off with him. Several
have said that they would have paid
for the potatoes he got to have seen the
race. The negro has not been caught.
On Tuesday at Batson's Mill, Mr..
N. P. Nicks, who had just moved
from this place, died of pneumonia.
Ten days before he died he was stout
and healthy man.
We are sorry to hear of the misfor.
tune of Clarksville on the 3rd instant
but little burn out to such men will
only freshen things up on the old part
OF the town. Respectfully,
ROBT.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
The New Railway Law.

The Insterstate Commerce act has
gone into effect. Hereafter it will be
unlawful tor any railway corporation
engaged in interstate transportation OF
passengers or freight
To make unjust or unreasonable.
charges.
To give preferences or make dis
criminations by "any special rate, re-
bate, drawback or other device"
To demand a greater gross charge for
a short than long haul Of freight or
passengers over the same line "under
substantially similar circumstances.
To enter into pooling agreements
with competing lines.
To grant free passes to any persons
but railroad officers and employees.
Every company is required to make
its rates public and to adhere strictly to
them while they remain in force.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
Mr.. strang Strangely Wins Fortune.

Joseph Strang, a former Auburnian,
living at Smith Falls, Ontario, is the
lucky man who drew one-tenth part of
the first capital prize OF $l5O, 900 in The
Louisiana State Lottery, at its last
drawing. Toa reporter he said that he
sent money by express to Mr. A Dau-
phin, at New Orleans for tickets. For
the one-tenth ticket, No. 73, ,9S7, he paid
one dollar. About six days after tho
drawing he learned that he had drawn
$4,000. He came to Auburn and or
dered the money sent to the banking
house Of William ii. Seward & Co.
The $l5, ,0e0 was forwarded in gold. He
and his wife will reside in this city
Aubara, N. Y. Advertiser, March IL.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23

D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper
dealer OF Chattanooga, Tenn, writes,
that he was seriously afflicted with a
severe cold that settled on his lungs;
had tried many remedies without
benefit. Being induced to try DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
tion, did so and was entirely cured by
use OF a few bottles. Since which
time he has used it in his family for
all Coughs and Colds with best results.
This is the experience of thousands
whose lives have been saved by this
Wonderful Discovery. Trial Bottles
free at Owen & Moore's Drug Store.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
Women at the Polls.

Avalanche: Any set of people less
impracticable than the women suffra-
gists are would not be slow to find a
moral in the result of the recent elec-
tions IN Kansas. The scenes about the
polls in Levenworth, the social center
of the State, city which prides itself
upon its beautiful and refined women,
were disgracelul in the extreme. The
most striking figure in the fight in that
city was Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar, tenn
perance advocate, who in her jealous
ness Is said to have declared that the
exclusive social set was reeking with
corruption. She had the Woman 's
Christian Association on her side, and
it became a contest of woman against
woman. Elegantly dressed ladies
drove about in fashionable carriages
picking up housemaids, washerwomen
and other female odds and end, ire
spectlve Of color or previous condition,
from the streets, paying them money tc
vote. Some of the ladies were deferred
from voting by women OF the other
side threatening to ventilate their repu-
tation. The most personal and bitter
animosities were engendered, scandals
were revived and unwarranted attack:
were make upon reputation.
And yet this is the kind of campaign
with which fanatics are threatening
Tennessee during the coming summer
The good women OF this State should
maintain their influence by staying a
home as far as possible from such mobs
Her place is in the home circle and sh,
has everything to lose and nothing t
gain by permitting demagogues to dral
her into unworthy associations.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
The State Debt.

Shelbyville Commercial: The State
Comptroller has announced that the
State will have TO borrow $2cc,GG0 to
pay the interest on her bonds in July,
and that the same amount TO pay the
next installment OF interest that falls
due in January. The amount needed
to pay the interest will be hall million
of dollars. The Supreme Court Of the
United States has decided that the
bondholders cannot sue the State and
make it pay the debt, but our Leglsla-
lure comes along and levies a tax upon
the people to raise money to pay inter
est on said bonds. II the taxpayers
would refuse to pay said tax it would
put an end to this taxing business and
settle the State debt forever.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
Bac.kac-he.

What does that spell? Why, "back-
ache," of course, though you would
not suspect it at the first glance. 1t
spells what hundreds and thousands of
women are suffering from every day OF
their lives, but what they need not sui
fer from, il they knew the virtues OF
DR.. Picrce's "Favorite Prescription. Z"
All those dragging down" pains and
sensations of nausea and weakness, pc
culiar TO women, can be cured by this
same boon to womankind. 1t is almost
magical in its results.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
An End 20 Bone scrup:ng.

Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg
ILL.,, says: Having received so much
benefit from Electric Bitters, feel it
my duty to let suffering humanity
know it. Have had running sore on
my leg for eight years; my doctors
told me | would have to have the bone
scirped or leg amputated. | used,
anstead, three bottles of Electric Bit
ters and seven boxes Bucklens Arnica
Salve, and my leg is now sound and
we'll" Electric Bitters are sold at fifty
cents bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica
Salve at 25c. per box by Owen &
Moore.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
Courier-Journal. That prince OF

Courier-Journal: That prince OF
Southern poets, and most accomplished
gentleman, James r. Randall, the au-
thor OF Maryland, My Maryland, has
retired from the edjtorship Of the Au-
gusta, Ga., Chronicle, which for near
y quarter OF century he made one
of the best OF newspapers, to become
the editor of the Hot blast at Admission,
Alabama, not least among the coming
cities of the Iron Belt. Mr. Randall has
hosts of friends, who never saw him, as
hosts who know him well, who will
wish him a substantial share OF the pros
perity of the new home to which he has
transplanted his household gods. He
may not always be sound in his eco
Monies, but he has heart which can
make up for all the unsound political
theories he is capable Of perpetrating.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23
He Thanked his Paper.

Mr.. Editor: / was induced by read
ing your good paper TO try DIR. Harter's
Iron Tonic for debility. liver disorder
and scrofula, and three bottles have
cured me. Accept my thanks.
Jos. g. BoGGs.--Ex.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23

A meek and lowly Democrat makes
this inquiry: I'll the President needs
exercise, why doesn't he devote an hour
a day TO throwing Republican office
holders over the back fence?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23

A Boston contemporary undertakes
to say that the latest thing out is night
key. Now everybody who has "been
there" knows that the night key inva-
ria5ly goes in before the chap who car
ries it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23

LOVE the art, poor as it may be,
which thou hast learned, and be content
with it; and pass through the rest of life
like one who has intrusted to the gods,
with his whole soul, all that ba has.
making thyself neither the tyraHt nor
the slave Of any man. n.-Marcus Aareiias.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23

"How is Jim Bullard getting on?"
asked stranger at a railway sta
ton of Western town. "Jim kerr
mitted suicide bout a month ago"
replied native. COMMITTED suicide !
How did he commit suiclde?" "He
called me liar, stranger"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23

ALL men try to get the earth, but the
earth gets them. This is not a joke, it
is the grave and solemn truth.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-23

Insurance receive careful and prompt attention
OF respectfully solicited JNO W. FAAoN CO.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
The Son of a Swineherd.

When the 10-year-old son of an In
diana hog raiser can count and check
off ZOO hogs as they rush out of a lot
in body the neighborhood settles down
to the belief that he will some day be
president of the United States. DE
troit Free Press.
The following appears in the columns
Of an exchange and is very suggestive.
We present it to our readers for their
perusal:
There is little matter that Some of
our subscribers have Seemingly for
gotten entirely. Some of them have
made us many promises, but have not
kept them. To US it is very impor-
tant matter. 1t is necessary in our
bu$ine$$. We are very modest and
DON like to Speak about it, but the
5 in this item is a very important fac
tor in newspaper Office.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
Mode OF killing Poultry.

The French mode of killing poultry,
causing instant death and and perfect
bleeding, is accomplished by opening
the beak Of the fowl, and with sharp
pointed narrow bladed knife, making
an incision at the back of the roof Of
the mouth, which will divide the verte-
bre and cause immediate death, after
which the fowls are hung up by the legs
until bled. They arc then picked when
warm. In this way the skin presents a
natura! appearance. = Chicago Times.
The Indians and half-breeds in the
northwest territory are reported 70 be
committing fresh depredations, and
fears are entertained Of an organized
uprising.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
DOWN GOES THE PRICES ON
NURSERY STOCK.

will have a car load of shade trees in my yard
for the spring trade. intend to make prices so
that every body can have shade that wants to.
will sell you:
Standard Pears,.5 to feet high. so
Cherries, standard, 5to feet high 40
Plums, Wild Goose and minor, tot feet high. 40
One year old cherry trees. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 20
No. one apple trees, 3years old, to feet ..12h
No one apple trees, years old, to feet. 10
No one apple trees, year old, to feet Z
Second class apple trees years old .....-.... .
Second class apple trees, years old. q
Second class apple trees, year old. ......... %
Second class trees are not kept in stock, and 25
per cent will be exacted guarantee that the
parties will take them if ordered.
Twill open my yard some time i'll March or as
soon as the weather will permit land will have every
thing that is kept in irstclass nursery, and our
prices shall be as low as can be.
l will have a fine lot of Roses, Shrubs and
Evergreens of all kinds, and will endavor to satisfy
all and give good satisfaction.
See D. Brooks or some of his statesmen, and get
prices before you place your orders.
Yards on North Bridge Street.
L. X. MCINTYRE,
Dealer in Lumber and Coal.
Dodge City, Kans Jan. -, 1887.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
What Allied the Negro.

The attention of the passengers in a
Texas smoking car was rivited on a
strangely acting negro. He rocked
himself from side to side without ceas-
ing
"What's the matter with you p ask
ed Andy Faulkner, who was in the car.
''Does you know Dan McGary?"
''Of course / do"
"Well, sab, he sold me silber watch
for $780," continued the negro, still
swaying from side to side, "and eff l
stops movin' dis heah way de watch
don't 60 no noah. Texas Siftings.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

house when the new style of bustles
were made and fitted, and have often
had the rest of the story from her own
lips. l am not aware that anything like
full account of this daring exploit of
two Kansas ladies has ever appeared in
print, and therefore take pleasure in
laying the facts before the public at this
late day hoping that even Senator In
gals will consider the service rendered
to the free state cause quite as valuable
as though they had welded bayonet.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

The residuary estate of Samuel j.
Tilden, estimated to be worth about s.,
600, 900, has been formally conveyed
to the members of the Tilden trust
1t will be applied to the purpose of
purchasing and maintaining the free Ii
brary provided for by the dead states
mans will.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
DRUNKENNESS, OR LIQUOR HABIT, CAN BE
CURED BY ADMINISTERING DIR.
HAINES' GOLDEN SPECIFIC.

1t can be given in cup of coffee or tea without
the knowledge of the person taking it, is absolute.
iy harmless and will effect permanent and speedy
cure, whether the patient is a moderate drinker
or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards
have been made temperate men who have taken
the Golden Specific in their coffee without their
knowledge, and to-day believe they quit drinking
of their own free will. IT NEVER FAILS.
The system once impregnated withe Specific it be-
comes an utter impOssibility for the liquor appe-
tite to exist. For full particulars, address
oct % GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co.,
1875 Race st. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
DODGE CITY BUILDING & LOAN

ASSOCIATION - Authorized chartered capital,
$780, 900. Loans money to its stock holders at 410
per cent per annum. Principal and interest pay
paying investment in the city, Stated meetings of
stock holders LIST Tuesday of each month, at city
building No. 8, on Spruce street. T. l.. McCarty,
NJ D., Pres: M. V. Markley, Vice Pres; II: W.
Evans, Cash'r. LIST Nat Blk, Treas: B. F. Milton,
Atty. j. NJ. BELL at Sun Set Mills, Secy.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

The man who can knock the same
fly off his nose four times in succession
without cussi1g need never join the
church. The pearly gates will swing
open as soon as his umbrella is seen
coming over the hill
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

BAPTIST CHURcH.-Rev D. s. Donegan, pastor.
Services every Sunday at II A. NJ, and 7:3O P. NJ.
Prayer meeting. Wednesday evening.
Sunday School, 9:45 A. NJ, Mrs. Ida Beadle, SUI
perintendent.
All are cordially invited
METHODIST E. CHURCH.--Rev G. Lowther, pas
tor. Services II NJ, and 7:30P. NJ. Prayer meet
ing every Thursday evening
Sunday School every Sunday at 3P. NJ.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. T. NJ. Boyd, pas
tor. Services at usual hours every Sunday Sab
bath School at 10 A. NJ.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

PIONEER LOAN AND TRUST co.
II you want to secure loan of money on real es-
tate, at low rates, money ready when papers are
made out, call on the Pioneer Loan and Trust Co.,
Of Dodge City. B. F. MILTON, Secy.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
KING KoRN.
What Southwest Kansas can Show
Of the Staple. Some Points
as to Propagation and
Cultivation.

Some Notes From an Article In This
Weeks Prairie Farmer on
Study the Corn
Roots"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

The break Of the Chicago wheat cor
ner will undoubtedly have good effect
on general trade. It bring prices in
that market down to the level prevail
ing in the other great centers, releases
millions of dollars tied up in sustaining
rates above the point they would reach
if trade laws was not interfered with,
and removes all distractions to the free
movement of the product. The num-
Der of failures which the collapse has
caused, it is true, is large, but this was,
of course, to be expected. Three or
four days hence the wheat market in
Chicago will present no outward APP
pearance of the big disturbance which
has just taken place, and perhaps be-
fore the year ends some Of the individ-
uals who managed the late corner, or
others equally powerful, astutc and un-
scrupulous, will lay their plans for the
Inauguration of another big deal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23
Natural Gas i'm Western Kansas.

The need Of cheap fuel has long been
felt in the western half of this state.
The introduction of new railways from
the coal fields of the southeast will less
en- the price of coal, yet unless sub
stitute be developed, the price of this
commodity is likely to remain an impor-
tant item in the expense of living. 1t
is but natural, then, that the people of
this part of the state should be investi-
eating the expediency of boring for gas.
In view of the general interest that
is being taken here in the matter, it
may be interesting to note progress that
has been made in the Development and
utilization of this calorifc vapor in
other parts of the country. Pittsburg,
Pa, was the first city to avail itself of
its advantages, and it has proved a
giant incentive to the upbuilding of that
city's manufacturing interests. Pitts
burg Is close to the great petroleum
district of this country, and it has been
generally assumed that natural gas, coal
and petroleum are co-existent elements
of the bowels of the earth. But this
theory is confronted by the contradic-
tory fact that some of the greatest gas
wells of the world are in regions where
neither coal nor oil has ever yet been
discovered, and which bear no geologi-
cal resemblance to any developed coal
land. In speaking on the subject the
Chicago Inter-Ocean says:
"The most wonderful thing about the
new fuel appears to be the universally
of it's distribution. It seems to be al
most everywhere. 1t is far more widely
defused than coal or iron or petroleum,
or other treasurers of the lower deeps.
Whether it exists in enduring quantities
is the only debatable matter. Pittsburg
has been using it in vast measures for
several years, and it is said without ap-
parent diminution of the force Of its
| flow from the wells
Some of the greatest wells of this
country are in Indiana-at Noblesville,
Muncie, Fort Wayne and Elwood-and
yet at none Of these localities is there
anything about the geology of the
country resembling that of the coal
fields of the keystone state.
There is no foundation, therefore, for
the supposition that gas cannot exist
without coal. Gas has been discovered
in various parts of Kansas coal has
been confined thus far principally to the
southeastern corner And there is every
reason to believe, aside from any assur-
ance that may be given by the study of
the question from scientific standpoint
that the work Of boring, which will be
commenced in Larned in a few days,
will be crowned with good results
Larned Chronoscope.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-06-23

anu aiCnOugn the buggy was again
searched, they were treated respect
fully and permitted to pass the line
and go home with but little delay.
How warmly they were welcomed home
again by the inhabitants of the belea-
guered little city, it is easier to imagine
than to describe. The Free State boys
were jubilant for they now had the indis-
pensible means of making good their de-
Tense, and we may add that as there
was more of the powder, lead and caps at
Stewart than the ladies could possibly
take, they very judiciously planned to
have 12-year old boy take the balance
to them in an OK wagon, and the plan
was SO well contrived that boy, wagon
and ammunition got through without ex-
citing the least suspicion. Mrs. Brown
is now Mrs. Lois H. Walker, and resides
in Los Angles, in Southern California,
while Mrs. Wood is still resident of
Kansas, the wife of Col. Sam N. Wood,
founder of Woodsdale, and hero Of
many strange and stirring adventures.
The writer hereof has had the pleasure
of thirty yerrs' acquaintance with Mrs.
Wood, and though Col. Sam has made
many enemies, do not think that Mrs.
Wood has an enemy in the world. With
Mrs. Brown had also slight acquaint-
ance, but am sorry to be Informed that
she is not in the enjoyment of the good
health that We would gladly see vouch-
safed to all the heroic pioneers of our
days of struggle. Her younger sister,
Mrs. Hnbbell, wife Of Of Capt W. o.
Hubbell, Of Sherlock township, in this
county, was present at her fathers
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-06
A QUICK DESSERT.

In list of quick desserts the Philadel-
phi Press includes whipped cream. After
skimming the cream put it into large
earthen bowl and let it stand on the ice
for few moments. This is not neces-
sary, but it whips more easily when very
cold. If you have no sillabub churn for
whipping it may be done with Dover
egg heater. When it is thoroughly whip
ped sweeten with very little powdered
sugar and flavor with vanilla or sherry
wine. Turn into a glass dish and put
into the air or in cold place until ready
to serve. 1t is not necessary to use CELIA
tine when served soon after whipping,
and the flavor is more delicate aS well as
the consistency more velvety without the
gelatine. Serve waters or delicate crack
erS with it.